Day Conference on Islam

It was good to be back at the seminary in Finchley again last Saturday this time to hear Tim Dieppe on the subject of the Challenge of Islam. Tim heads up Christian Concern and over the years had gathered a great deal of information about Islam in this country and written on it many times (much of this has been put together in a recently piblished book). The pattern of the day was that Tim spoke in the morning and took questions and then after lunch (kindly provided) he did something similar but more on reaching Muslims rather than simply on Islam. At the end of the day we heard from a converted Muslim seeking to win others to Christ to this day, an appropriate way to close.

Nick Needham on Luther

Nick Needham answering questions with Edward Malcolm seated

It was great to be at the Protestant Truth Society Conference today with about 50 or 60 others at the college and seminary in Finchley. I wanted to go to something on Luther this month and this was a good choice I'm sure. In the chair was Edward Malcolm of the PTS and the speaker was Nick Needham, pastor of the Reformed Baptist Church in Inverness and lecturer in church history at HTC in Dingwall. Nick is always worth hearing and he was very good today on the material and the formal principle of the Reformation, that is justification by faith and Scripture alone. Perhaps the first message on the formal principle was superior but both were excellent papers. We also had good question sessions following the two papers.

That first message included two excellent quotations that I will include in separate blogs.